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George Eliot
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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because...”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known—ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
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Middlemarch
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“One can begin so many things with a new person! —even begin to be a better man.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“one has a grudge against a man who carries off the prettiest girl in the town. ”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
“To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
George Eliot
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Middlemarch
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